LANSDALE — A Lansdale man accused of entering his girlfriend’s apartment without permission, punching her in the face and then taking her cellphone earlier this month walked out of a district courtroom Monday a free man, at least for now.

Moses Towda Mulbah, 20, of the 600 block of South Broad Street — who was led handcuffed by police into District Judge Harold Borek’s Lansdale court — waived his preliminary hearing Monday morning.

In exchange, prosecutors withdrew two of the six charges filed against him — felony criminal trespassing and misdemeanor receiving stolen property. However, Mulbah still faces trial on the remaining four charges that he waived, including felony robbery, misdemeanor theft, misdemeanor simple assault and summary harassment.

Borek also lowered Mulbah’s bail from $10,000 cash to $10,000 unsecured, with the condition that he is to have no contact with the alleged victim in the case, and Mulbah — who had been behind bars at Montgomery County Correctional Facility since his Jan. 21 preliminary arraignment before Borek — was released from custody and allowed to leave court on his own.

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Police said that just after 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 20, officers were dispatched to the Woods Edge Apartments on the 700 block of Weikel Road for a reported domestic incident between a woman and her boyfriend.

At the scene, officers made contact with the alleged victim, who said that earlier in the evening she, a friend (whom police did not identify) and Mulbah, her boyfriend, were all at the gym when she got into a verbal altercation with Mulbah “in regard to their relationship,” police said.

She told officers she left the gym with her friend and went back home to her apartment, and that she left the front door slightly open “by mistake,” police said.

Mulbah followed the woman back to her apartment, according to police, pushed the door open behind her and asked for her phone. When she refused to hand it over, Mulbah reportedly punched her in the face, took the phone and fled on foot toward Weikel Road, said police, adding that officers observed a small red contusion under the victim’s right eye.

A witness said they heard a “loud boom” coming from the first floor of the apartment building around the time of the alleged incident and upon going downstairs to investigate encountered the victim, who was complaining that Mulbah had just punched her and swiped her phone, police said.

Lansdale police went to Mulbah’s residence and found him in possession of the phone, which was valued at approximately $750; Towamencin police were called to the location and they took Mulbah into custody.

Mulbah is due in county court on March 12 for his formal arraignment on the charges.